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Germany: Car ramming injures several near Hannover
Car ramming injures several near Hannover. A person intentionally drove into a group of people in a northern German town, police have said.
A BMW was driven deliberately into a group of people, leaving four to five of them with some serious but not life-threatening injuries in Neustadt am Rübenberge late on Monday night, police said on Tuesday morning.
A police patrol making routine traffic checks intervened, shooting at the car to stop it.
An unknown number of suspects fled the car on foot and remain at large, a police spokesperson said.
A reporter for the German DPA news agency described several damaged cars, with flat tires, a smashed rear window and bullet holes.
This article will be updated as more information becomes available.
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